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Unclassified road crash in Wokingham RG45 on 15 February 1979 at 09:00 involving a car

A car hit a pedestrian on an unclassified road in Wokingham at 09:00 on Thursday 15 February 1979. A 7-year-old male pedestrian was slightly injured.

It happened in daylight in snow and high winds on a single carriageway with a 30 mph limit, at a T or staggered junction.

Severity
Slight
Date
15 Feb 1979
Thursday, 09:00
Vehicles
1
Car
Casualties
1
1 slightly injured

Location of the crash

Police recorded the crash at latitude 51.3762, longitude -0.80041, in the RG45 postcode district and within the built-up area of Crowthorne.

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  • 1 crash
  • Slight

Collision details

Basic information

Reference
197943C041029
Council area
Wokingham
Police force
Thames Valley

Road and location details

First road class
Unclassified
Road type
Single carriageway
Speed limit
30 mph

Junction information

Junction type
T or staggered junction
Junction control
Give way or uncontrolled
Second road class
Unclassified

Pedestrian crossing information

Crossing facilities
No physical crossing facility within 50 m

Environmental conditions

Light conditions
Daylight
Weather
Snowing with high winds
Road surface
Snow

The 6 nearest recorded crashes

The nearest, 117 metres away, was a slight injury crash on 4 April 2024.

Vehicles involved (1)

  • Vehicle 1: Car

    Manoeuvre
    Moving off
    Travelling from
    North
    Travelling to
    South
    First point of impact
    Front
    Driver sex
    Female
    Driver age
    38 years

Casualties (1)

  • Casualty 1: Pedestrian

    Slight

    Male, aged 7, hit by vehicle 1 (Car)

    Pedestrian location
    In carriageway, crossing elsewhere
    Pedestrian movement
    Crossing from driver's nearside

Data source

This record comes from the Department for Transport’s road safety data (STATS19), in which police forces in Great Britain record every road crash reported to them where someone was injured. It is reference 197943C041029 in the data published on GOV.UK under the Open Government Licence v3.0, and one of the crashes counted in the Wokingham road accident statistics for 1979.